"suffered inadequate power levels and signal strength"
I guess this was about the saem time when other
manufacturers got disqualified for shouting at
the cocktail party.
Shouting also seem to be important for SMS messages.
But Q has never liked that others shout at parties, eats all
that 40x capacity they promised.
All while Gilder withdraws to another orthogonal nirvana
behind the comet Globalstar:
(thanks, Q-thread, but not sure where the quote ends, although it really doesn't matter)
Message 15230479
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Orthogonal Frequency Division means almost nothing.
It applies, for example, to the original AMPS analog system.
In this case it is enhanced by digitization and "flash" (ie
fast) signal processing to allow low latency communications.
All I can say is that at very best they are a year
behind Qualcomm's HDR, which has the considerable virtue of
existing already, and which also uses orthogonal frequency bands (separated in time and space) and is also being
upgraded to allow transactional data with lower latencies.
I suspect that like EDGE--which is already
backpedaling from claims of joining mobility with
multimedia--Flarion will end up as a wireless local loop
provider that is either mobile or multimedia (voice and
data) but not all at once. As far as I can see, after all
the political postures and machinations are over, this
battle will be settled by the engineers and that the
paradigm will prevail. That is, some dynamic
combination of CDMA 2000 with HDR and Globalstar will
become the winner. I would love to see the Ford alliance
bring it to market, but as yet I have no indication that
Globalstar is in the picture there (though Qualcomm did not
deny that it might well fit). --GG
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Luckily Nokia has (already had) a good opportunity to test
OFDMA in the digi-TV system (another interesting
media space).
Ilmarinen. |
